Golden Medical Discovery touted as universal cure in family letter
A Keene, Ohio woman endorses the Golden Medical Discovery as a powerful remedy for coughs and blood purification. She claims it helped her son with St Vitus dance and praises its quick effects on digestion, liver, bowels, and nerves while noting it is a temperance medicine free of sugar alcohol or opiates.
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E. A. Bender
Keene
Coshocton Co
Ohio
Golden Medical Discovery
White River Navigation Plan Seeks 1 Million Federal Aid
A special Indianapolis Commercial Club committee urges Congress to appropriate 1 million dollars to improve White River from its west fork to the mouth. The extensive report details depth, channel, obstructions, mineral resources, and potential for year round navigation with a reasonable outlay. It notes coal, stone, iron ore, and agricultural wealth along the river and stresses cheaper fuel for Indianapolis and regional industry.
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Indianapolis Commercial Club
White River
Board of Directors
West Fork
White River Valley
Ohio River
Indiana
Indianapolis
Mississippi Valley
Commerical Club
Hamilton
Is Baby Too Thin and How to Help Nourish It
The piece argues that babies should grow when fed properly and warns against over medicating. It suggests checking current feeding and nutrition, considering past mistakes that may have weakened digestion, and using common sense to support natural growth by adding a small amount of a simple dietary aid.
Scott's Emulsion Promises Health For Mother And Child
An old advertisement claims Scott's Emulsion improves a baby's digestion when given three or four times daily and that the gain begins on the first day. It suggests nursing mothers also take the emulsion to benefit both mother and child, noting twenty five years of proven effectiveness.
Navigation by Dams Proposed for White River System
A government report lists county property values in Indiana counties including Marion Morgan Greene Daviess Knox Pike and Gibson totaling 449 185 with average personal property values of 57 406 376 and total valuation of 215 005 760 Numbers and counties are cited for a plan to build twenty to twenty five dams to keep the river navigable year round from Gosport to Martinsville Proponents argue many dams would be below cost and could provide cheap power while removing snags would cost about 1 000 per mile The report notes bridges are high enough to allow currents and vessel passage and compares White River favorably with other rivers like the Kentucky and Cumberland
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Gosport
Martinsville
Kentucky River
Greene River
Cumberland River
Tennessee River
Chattanooga
Big Sandy River
Little Kanawha River
Great Kanawha
Muskingum River
White River
Grain-O A Grain Drink Supplanting Coffee
An advertisement promotes Grain-O as a coffee substitute for children. It claims Grain-O is made of pure grains, tastes like coffee, costs roughly the same, and is sold by all grocers at 15c and 25c. It urges using Grain-O to improve health.
Postoffice Robbery Suspects Arrested in Indiana Region
Two deputy U S Marshals arrested Paxton postoffice robbers Ben Forman Frank Proctor and Louis Waldridge who fled to Worthington and were held for an Indianapolis grand jury. Linton marshal Sheriff Mayfield and others testified at the Terre Haute hearing.
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U. S
Paxton
Peyton
Ben Forman
Frank Proctor
Louis Waldridge
Worthington
Terre Haute
U.S. Grand Jury
Indianapolis
Linton
Sherriff Mayfield
W. H. Hawkins
John Nesbit
Shooting at boarding house leaves man paralyzed
Evansville dispatch details Richard Gray son of Dr Simeon Gray Worthington shot by John Kelley in a boarding house Tuesday night. Kelley in jail on bond after threatening his wife and her lover. Gray wounded twice and paralyzed below the chest with a fatal prognosis from Dr Young at St Marys Hospital. Both men railroad workers.
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Evansville
Richard Gray
Simeon Gray
Worthington
John Kelly
Gray
Young
St. Mary's Hospital
John Kelley
Kelley
Kelly
Desrabie Residence For Sale In Desirable Location
Seven room residence offered at a price below market value. Inquire at this office for details and to arrange viewing.
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Desrabie
Smallpox Cures Promote Wide Local Interest
The Press republishes enduring remedies for smallpox including zinc sulphate and foxglove tea as a supposed cure and lemon juice therapy. Claims claim rapid recovery within hours and urge vaccination by self inoculation with virus from a quill. A Liverpool Mercury correspondent endorses cream of tartar as a universal cure, urging public reports of cures.
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Jeniver
England
Paris
James Moore
Ironton, O
The
Liverpool Mercury
Colums
Greene County Man Fears Hypnosis To Block Marriage
A Greene County man asks the clerk to refuse his marriage license if he applies, claiming a young woman can hypnotize him and hinder the process. He fears her designs and the clerk could be influenced.
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Odon Journal
Greene County
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